Azure Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 17 13
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure 166 70 54
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 14.77% 10.97% 12.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.52% 34.83% 37.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 53 39
10th Percentile £396 £302 £370
25th Percentile £447 £350 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £450 £535
Median % change year-on-year +15.33% -15.89% -10.31%
75th Percentile £600 £541 £622
90th Percentile £675 £600 £646
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £507
% change year-on-year +5.26% -6.31% -7.82%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 420 201 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 37.37% 31.50% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 150 95
10th Percentile £354 £280 £270
25th Percentile £447 £358 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £473 £515
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -8.25% -13.15%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £589
90th Percentile £675 £601 £642
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.50
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.26%
75th Percentile - - £22.00
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.00 £200.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -90.50% +830.23% +1.15%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Azure job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield +9 160 £521 +15.78% 61
Doncaster -6 1 - - 12
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 14 (8.43%) Confluence
2 13 (7.83%) Apache Spark
3 9 (5.42%) SharePoint
4 7 (4.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (3.61%) Apache
6 4 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (2.41%) Apache Superset
7 2 (1.20%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 82 (49.40%) AWS
2 72 (43.37%) GCP
3 34 (20.48%) GitHub
4 30 (18.07%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (13.86%) Entra ID
6 22 (13.25%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (9.04%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (7.83%) Power Platform
9 9 (5.42%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (4.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 8 (4.82%) Serverless
11 7 (4.22%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (3.01%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (3.01%) Azure Storage
13 5 (3.01%) OpenShift
14 4 (2.41%) Azure Databricks
14 4 (2.41%) GitHub Copilot
14 4 (2.41%) LangSmith
14 4 (2.41%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.43%) Network Security
2 12 (7.23%) DNS
3 10 (6.02%) Firewall
4 4 (2.41%) VPN
5 3 (1.81%) Kerberos
5 3 (1.81%) NAS
5 3 (1.81%) SAN
6 2 (1.20%) LAN
6 2 (1.20%) Multicast
6 2 (1.20%) VSAN
6 2 (1.20%) WAN
7 1 (0.60%) DHCP
7 1 (0.60%) Intranet
7 1 (0.60%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.60%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.43%) Big Data
2 12 (7.23%) SQL Server
3 10 (6.02%) Power BI
4 9 (5.42%) Data Lake
5 7 (4.22%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (3.01%) Neo4j
7 5 (3.01%) Redis
8 4 (2.41%) Metadata
8 4 (2.41%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.41%) Trino
9 3 (1.81%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.81%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.20%) Flink
10 2 (1.20%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.60%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.60%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 35 (21.08%) Jenkins
2 22 (13.25%) JIRA
3 13 (7.83%) Git
4 8 (4.82%) GitLab
4 8 (4.82%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (2.41%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.81%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (1.81%) Fiddler
7 2 (1.20%) Claude Code
7 2 (1.20%) Gatling
7 2 (1.20%) JMeter
7 2 (1.20%) Maven
7 2 (1.20%) MSBuild
7 2 (1.20%) Postman
7 2 (1.20%) Selenium
7 2 (1.20%) Terragrunt
7 2 (1.20%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.60%) JUnit
8 1 (0.60%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.60%) Newman
General
1 64 (38.55%) Finance
2 63 (37.95%) Social Skills
3 21 (12.65%) Banking
4 17 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.42%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.01%) Law
8 3 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.81%) Legal
8 3 (1.81%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.20%) Billing
10 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (17.47%) Lead
2 23 (13.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (13.25%) Architect
4 13 (7.83%) Developer
5 10 (6.02%) Platform Engineer
6 9 (5.42%) Consultant
6 9 (5.42%) Security Engineer
7 8 (4.82%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (4.82%) Cloud Architect
7 8 (4.82%) Senior
7 8 (4.82%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (4.22%) Analyst
8 7 (4.22%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (4.22%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 7 (4.22%) Data Engineer
8 7 (4.22%) Lead DevOps
8 7 (4.22%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 6 (3.61%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
9 6 (3.61%) Cloud Solutions Architect
9 6 (3.61%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (30.72%) Terraform
2 23 (13.86%) REST
3 16 (9.64%) Kafka
4 13 (7.83%) .NET
4 13 (7.83%) OAuth
5 11 (6.63%) OpenID
6 10 (6.02%) React
6 10 (6.02%) SailPoint
7 9 (5.42%) ASP.NET
7 9 (5.42%) OAuth2
7 9 (5.42%) SAML
8 8 (4.82%) AngularJS
8 8 (4.82%) JSON
8 8 (4.82%) Spring
8 8 (4.82%) Spring Boot
9 7 (4.22%) .NET Core
9 7 (4.22%) Web Services
10 6 (3.61%) FIDO
11 5 (3.01%) PySpark
11 5 (3.01%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 35 (21.08%) Cloud Native
2 18 (10.84%) Data Protection Act
2 18 (10.84%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (7.23%) Onboarding
4 11 (6.63%) Data Centre
5 10 (6.02%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.61%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (3.61%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (3.01%) Public Cloud
7 5 (3.01%) Replication
7 5 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.41%) Autonomous Agent
8 4 (2.41%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.41%) PKI
9 3 (1.81%) Blog
9 3 (1.81%) Cyber Security Posture
9 3 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.81%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.04%) Linux
1 15 (9.04%) Windows
2 13 (7.83%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.81%) AIX
3 3 (1.81%) Android
3 3 (1.81%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.81%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.60%) CoreOS
5 1 (0.60%) Unix
5 1 (0.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (52.41%) CI/CD
2 83 (50.00%) DevOps
3 58 (34.94%) Cybersecurity
4 46 (27.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (25.90%) Observability
6 35 (21.08%) AI
7 34 (20.48%) DevSecOps
7 34 (20.48%) Platform Engineering
8 32 (19.28%) Analytics
8 32 (19.28%) Stakeholder Management
9 28 (16.87%) Agile
10 25 (15.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (15.06%) Microservices
10 25 (15.06%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (14.46%) Cloud Security
12 23 (13.86%) Software Engineering
13 22 (13.25%) Identity Access Management
13 22 (13.25%) RBAC
13 22 (13.25%) Test Automation
14 21 (12.65%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 57 (34.34%) Python
2 38 (22.89%) Java
3 30 (18.07%) SQL
4 26 (15.66%) PowerShell
5 12 (7.23%) C#
6 10 (6.02%) Bash
7 9 (5.42%) Shell Script
8 8 (4.82%) Bicep
9 7 (4.22%) Groovy
10 6 (3.61%) JavaScript
11 4 (2.41%) Kotlin
11 4 (2.41%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (1.81%) Go
12 3 (1.81%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.60%) C
13 1 (0.60%) Cypher
13 1 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (7.83%) Degree
2 10 (6.02%) AWS Certification
3 9 (5.42%) Azure Certification
3 9 (5.42%) CISSP
4 7 (4.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 7 (4.22%) CCSP
4 7 (4.22%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (4.22%) CISM
5 6 (3.61%) CCSK
5 6 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.01%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.81%) NCDA
8 3 (1.81%) NCIE
9 2 (1.20%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.20%) PMP
9 2 (1.20%) Security Cleared
10 1 (0.60%) CISA
10 1 (0.60%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.42%) QA
2 8 (4.82%) NIST
3 6 (3.61%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.81%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.81%) GRC
6 2 (1.20%) GDPR
6 2 (1.20%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.20%) PMO
6 2 (1.20%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.60%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 32 (19.28%) Docker
2 29 (17.47%) Active Directory
3 9 (5.42%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (4.22%) Hyper-V
4 7 (4.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.81%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 3 (1.81%) SRDF
5 3 (1.81%) vSphere
6 2 (1.20%) NFS
6 2 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.60%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (0.60%) Ceph
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.60%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 60 (36.14%) Kubernetes
2 22 (13.25%) Ansible
3 14 (8.43%) Prometheus
4 13 (7.83%) Grafana
5 7 (4.22%) Kustomize
5 7 (4.22%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (2.41%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 3 (1.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.81%) Argo
7 3 (1.81%) EMC VPLEX
7 3 (1.81%) Packer
7 3 (1.81%) SnapMirror
7 3 (1.81%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.20%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.20%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.20%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.20%) SnapVault
9 1 (0.60%) QRadar
9 1 (0.60%) WMI
Vendors
1 54 (32.53%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.84%) Databricks
3 10 (6.02%) CyberArk
4 9 (5.42%) Google
5 8 (4.82%) ServiceNow
6 7 (4.22%) OpenAI
6 7 (4.22%) Splunk
6 7 (4.22%) VMware
7 6 (3.61%) Centrify
7 6 (3.61%) Cisco
8 5 (3.01%) Okta
8 5 (3.01%) Red Hat
9 4 (2.41%) Palo Alto
9 4 (2.41%) Veeam
10 3 (1.81%) 3PAR
10 3 (1.81%) Brocade
10 3 (1.81%) Dell
10 3 (1.81%) EMC
10 3 (1.81%) IBM
10 3 (1.81%) NetApp